Young Adult Fiction from Books, Interesting and Odd & Sleepyside Books

Harper & Row, 1968. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First printing of this very significant work of young adullt fiction. Book shows age -- has some soil to page ends. Boards are illustrated with the jacket art. Jacket is intact, no tears, minor chips at the corners, but is price-clipped. Paper shows age spots and foxing. One of… Read more about this item

New York: Amistad, 2006. Advance Reader's Copy . Trade Paperback. Fine. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Signed by author (and dated (20-5-06) on the title page. A quite interesting free verse novel from this influential Young Adult author. Fine in blackwraps with striking graffiti-influenced cover.

New York: Viking, 2009. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾"- 9¾" tall. Second printing of this acclaimed YA novel. NF in a VG jacket with a bit of rubbing to rear, faint crease to top front, and a small bend at top of spine. Clean and unmarked.

New York: Philomel Books, 2011. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾"- 9¾" tall. Signed by author on the title page. The final Alex Rider novel, First printing, Fine in a very nearly fine jacket, appears unread. Nice, bold signature

New York: Viking, 2007. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾"- 9¾" tall. First printing of this title from popular author of teen fiction. NF, with a couple very small bends to page corners, faint impression to a couple of pages apparently paper clipped, Jacket NF with a little creasing to top rear. … Read more about this item

New York: Alfred a Knopf, 2000. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. A fine first printing of this novel from Newberry Award winning novelist Spinelli. A previously homeschooled girl turns an Arizona high school upside down, challenging the perceptions of those around her. Fine in a NF jacket with very slight… Read more about this item

New York: Atheneum, 2001. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾"- 9¾" tall. The second novel in Virginia Wolff (no relation)'s trilogy of novels about a young woman named LaVaughn. Winner of the National Book Award for Young People's Literature. Fine in a fine jacket, not price clipped. 4th printing.

New York: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 2006. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾"- 9¾" tall. A nice copy of this unusual novel about a young shepherd defending monsters and outcasts against Greek heroes. Fine in a fine jacket, first printing, not price clipped.

New York: Delacorte, 2010. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. A nice clean copy of this popular young adult novel. Fourth printing, fine in a nearly fine jacket with minimal shelfwear.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2006. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾"- 9¾" tall. An engaging young adult novel about a high school misfit and the eccentric girl who befriends him. First printing, not price clipped, fine in a NF jacket with a very tiny tear to top front corner.

New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2007. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾"- 9¾" tall. A very nice copy of this popular young adult novel. Fine in a near fine jacket, later printing. A touch of wear to top rear jacket edge.

New York: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing, 2009. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾"- 9¾" tall. Nice clean copy of this novel about a girl and the new mysterious boy in her high school. Fine in a NF jacket--minimal shelfwear, no remainder mark. Later printing.

New York: Simon & Schuster, 2006. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾"- 9¾" tall. A nicely done young adult novel about two childhood friends spending a summer apart, and independently falling in love. First printing, NF in a like jacket (a touch of shelfwear, jacket a bit loose to boards).

New York: Longmans, Green and Co, 1967. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾"- 9¾" tall. A novel about the difficulties of a young black girl who is startled by the prejudice she experience when beginning high school. This is a first edition, in very good condition with a very good jacket. Not ex… Read more about this item

New York: HarperCollins, 1999. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾"- 9¾" tall. A very nice second printing, fine in a fine jacket, of this powerful novel about a teenager accused as an accomplice in a murder. Winner of the National Book Award and Coretta Scott King medal.

New York: Random House, 2006. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾"- 9¾" tall. Young adult novel from an up and coming author, winner of the Printz medal. First printing, Fine in a VG+ jacket. A little creasing at top front edge, a little shelfwear.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2006. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. An emotion-filled work of teen fiction centered around a 16 year old girl struggling with the unexpected suicide of a much older half-sister. VG (coffee stain to foredge, not extending to the pages themselves) in a fine jacket. First printing. … Read more about this item

New York: Scholastic, 1971. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. A bit of wear to edges of cover, two small tears and a crease upper front near spine, some overall wear to cover, pages somewhat browned.Tale of a girl coping with her mother's return home from a psychiatric ward.

New York: Delacorte Press, 1997. First Edition . Cloth. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾"- 9¾" tall. A nice, clean first printing of this novel set in small town Georgia in 1961. A finely wrought tale of a family's trials and tribulations, told by a 15 year old protagonist. Fine in a fine jacket.

New York: Hyperion, 2000. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾"- 9¾" tall. Sis, Peter. The first entry in author's Wind on Fire series. First printing of this older young adult fantasy title, NF in like jacket (a touch of wear to jacket, a very faint small stain to the foredge). Unclipped jacket, first… Read more about this item